On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:16:03AM +0000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > > arc isn't available in Debian because of a non-free license. > > Ditto for freeze, which doesn't appear to have a license of any sort.
hmmm.. freeze doesn't seem to be used in my version... > The reason I've been hanging back for so long is that the last version I > looked at build-deps on a bunch of non-free packages (and packages that > will never be in Debian). I was planning to modify it so that the I think arc is the only one which will never be in debian. The other archivers are in non-free. Which is a bit silly IMHO, as I don't really expect to get any E-Mail compressed using arc anymore. Probably the same applies with the other non-free methods too (lha, unarj, unrar zoo). > configure script no longer checked for the existance of those binaries, > but instead they were detected at runtime (or specified through some > configuration file). That way, it could at least go into main[1]. Thats what I managed to do with the virus scanners. (oh, as for scannerdaemon, it is a GPL based java virus scanner daemon. I plan to package it for Debian ASAP, but upstream need to include some missing files in the source code first). Hmmmm good idea... Maybe I could do autodetect stuff with the archivers, too. I have some ideas on how this could be done, will look at doing this for version -3. > The other issue I wanted to think about was how to make it > MTA-independent. But that's relatively hard, I guess. A working > version for Postfix in woody is a great idea. I think this would be hard to do without changing a lot of upstream code... Soemthing I don't want to do. Another idea I had has to generate several packages, eg: amavis-postfix amavis-exim as these are probably the most popular MTAs. > Feel free to upload and close the bug. At least this way, the Perl > packages I've uploaded will finally be used. :) Who me???? Seriously, I just have a few minor bugs to fix (I just realized my build-depends doesn't list the non-free archivers, hence won't work), and I can upload any time. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
